Readings And Exercises In Elocution

Author : William Russell
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230343938
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Exercises in Elocution; Exemplifying the Rules and Principles of the Art of Reading written by William Russell and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ... MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES. [The following extracts are designed to be used, not as a complete collection of pieces for all the purposes of reading, but as examples on which to apply the rules and principles contained in the preceding pages of this work. By practising on these selections, the student will become prepared to make a more intelligent and effectual use of the reading books in common use.' When opportunity admits of studying with the aid of a teacher, it would be advisable to go through every piece with a careful preparatory analysis, applying the rules of inflection, emphasis, and pausing, and the principles of modulation. The pencil may be used to advantage for the purpose of marking the principal words and clauses of every sentence with their appropriate modifications of voice; the usual accents being employed to designate the inflections--a single or double perpendicular line for the 'pauses, according to their comparative length--and single or double underscoring for emphasis, according to its force. The changes of force, pitch, and rate, may be designated on the margin by initial letters; Id., (loud;) s, (so/1;) h, {high;) ho., (low;) f, (fast;) si, (slow;) and intermediate qualities thus, M, (moderate force;) m, (middle pitch;) m, (moderate rate.) The exercises presented in the subsequent pages, are graduated by the rhetorical classification of the pieces, commencing with narrative and descriptive style, and avoiding -the introduction of didactic subjects till the easier forms of writing have been practised. This gradation, though little observed in most reading books, is of great importance to the acquisition of an easy, unaffected style of reading. The formal tones commonly heard in school reading, may nearly all be...